The Mableys of St Minver

The Mabley family spread from Wavendon in the late 18th. Century to Little Linford, then nearby bustling Great Linford. Significantly, Mabley changed to Mapley with the migration.

There has been a settlement at Newport Pagnell since before the Iron Age, at the junction of two rivers, the Ouse and the Lovat, both fordable at this point. It was a town of some importance at the time of the Doomsday survey and by the end of the 12th century was known by its present name–Newport (new town) Pagnell (after Fulk Paynell who was given ownership of the land by William the Conqueror).

Newport Pagnell, and Olney, were at one time the centre of the lace industry in England, but it was through its importance as a transport centre that the town grew, being on direct routes between Leicester and London and Cambridge and Oxford. Many local Mapley women list their occupation as lace makers in the 18th and 19th centuries, whereas the Mapley men became employed and skilled in the railways industry in the 19th century.

The coming of the branch of the Grand Union Canal in 1817 reduced the reliance on road traffic for heavy goods, but the railways dealt a death blow to coaches and narrow boats. The waterway link had already fallen into disuse when the branch railway line from Wolverton was opened in 1865. The town was by then a busy centre with a thriving coachworks owned by Salmons later the home of Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd, a focal point for the local farming industry and to some extent a dormitory for workers at the Railway Works at Wolverton.

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1st. St Minver Generation

Little Linford ==> William Mapley (1779 - 23/6/1850) m. Hannah (1778 - 1861) in 1806
mentioned in Posse Comitatus. Their Children :-

  • William Mapley (1805 - 14/6/1818)
  • George (1808 - 1884) m. Sarah Reynolds (1808 - 1886) in 1833
  • Richard Mapley (1808 - 10/11/1851) m. Frances "Fanny" Goss (1808 - 13/3/1878) in 1828 ==> Australia 1845 & 1849
  • John Mapley (1812 - 1891) m. Ann "Nancy" Goss (1817 -) in 1836
  • Edmund Mapley (31/7/1814 - 21/6/1845) m. Elisabeth Dolton (1819 -) in 1838
  • Sarah Mapley (29/12/1816 - 25/4/1819)
  • William Mapley (1820 - 1898) m. Mary B Dolton (1819 - 1892) in 1842 ==> Market Harborough, Leics.
p>Little Linford ==>Thomas Mapley (1795 - 1838) m. Sarah Pindar (1795 - 1849)
Children :-
  • Henry Mapley (1823 - 7/10/1824)
  • Willian Mapley (1822 - 1871) m. Mary Pettit (1828 -)
  • Henry Mapley (6/12/1824 - 10/12/1824)
  • Thomas Mapley (25/12/1825 - 4/1894) m. Phoebe Barker (1825 - 1896) in 1849
  • Edwin Mapley (25/2/1827 - 7/1900) m. Hannah Smith (1828 - 1904) in 1848
  • Henry Mapley (13/7/1828 - 1915) m. Harriett Lee (1833 - 1871) in 1853 ==> Great Woolstone
  • Emanuel Mapley (12/9/1830 - 10/1871) ==> Crimean War => Newport Pagnell

2nd. Great Linford Generation
George (1808 - 1884) m. Sarah Reynolds (1808 - 1886) in 1833
Children :-

  • Elizabeth Mapley (30/11/1834 - ) m. George Gaskins (1832) in 1856
  • Jane Mapley (15/10/1836 - 20/3/1837)
  • Charles Mapley (21/10/1838 - 1881) m. Ann Mapley (29/1/1843 - 1881) in 1866
  • Eleanor Mapley (28/3/1841 - ) m. Samuel Haines (1839 -) in 1864
  • William Mapley (6/8/1843 - 1914) m. Sarah Goodman (1845 -)
  • George Mapley (22/3/1846 - )

John Mapley (1812 - 1891) m. Ann "Nancy" Goss (1817 -) in 1836
Children :-

  • William Mapley (1839 - 10/1/1841)
  • Ann Mapley (29/1/1843 - 1881) m. Charles Mapley (21/10/1838) in 1866
    Annie Mapley, schoolteacher
  • Hannah Mapley (15/6/1845 - ) m. James Compton (1844 - ) in 1866 ==> Castlethorpe ==> Australia
  • William Mapley (13/2/1848 - )
  • Fanny Emma Mapley (19/5/1850) m. Henry Beckham Rose (1848 -) in 1869
  • John Mapley (30/1/1853 - 1897)
  • Joseph Mapley (1855 - ) m. Elizabeth Stanton in 1877
  • Jane Mapley (8/11/1857 - ) m. John Willcox Mills (1854 - ) in 1877

Edmund Mapley (31/7/1814 - 21/6/1845) m. Elisabeth Dolton (1819 -) in 1838
Children :-

Newport Pagnell ==>George Mapley (17/7/1777 - 5/1851) m. Ann Webb (1779 - 1862)

3rd. Great Linford Generation
Charles Mapley (21/10/1838 - 1881) m. Ann Mapley (29/1/1843 - 1881) in 1866
Children :-

  • Charles George Mapley (10/12/1867 - 4/5/1933)
  • Elizabeth Mapley (6/11/1870 - )
  • Harry Charles Mapley (18/5/1873 - 7/7/1939) m. Gertrude Sarah Attwood (5/3/1871 - 15/2/1898) in 1898
    m. Louise Oliver (16/10/1870 - 20/6/1938) in 1901 ==> Newport Pagnell
  • Sarah Jane (19/3/1875 - ) m. Frederick H Tabram in 1913
  • William Mapley (18/1/1880 - ) m. Annie Bradwell
  • George Mapley (1883 - )

4th. Great Linford Generation
Harry Charles Mapley (18/5/1873 - 7/7/1939) m. Gertrude Sarah Attwood (5/3/1871 - 15/2/1898)
in 1898, m. Louise Oliver (16/10/1870 - 20/6/1938) in 1901 ==> Newport Pagnell
Children :-

  • Gertrude Louisa Mapley (15/2/1898 - 1987)
  • Dorothy Gertrude Pearson Mapley (15/2/1898 - 1988) m. Allan Lambert
  • Alfred John Mapley (14/6/1902 - 21/4/1979) m. Ella May harper (1903 - 1931) in 1926
    m. Muriel Janet Shrimpton ( - 1980)
  • Charles William Mapley (1/5/1905 - 29/6/1981) m. Mabel Anne Lathall (6/1/1906 - 17/8/1975) in 1932 ==> Olney, Bucks.
  • Ada Louise Mapley (8/8/1907 - 17/5/1986) m. Robert Goldstraw (23/4/1904 - 25/5/1995) in 1937

5th. Great Linford Generation
Alfred John Mapley (14/6/1902 - 21/4/1979) m. Ella May harper (1903 - 1931) in 1926
m. Muriel Janet Walker ( - 1980)
Children :-

  • Maurice Henry Mapley (15/5/1927 - 20/4/2007) m. Mary Margaret O'Hanlon (8/12/1936 - 31/1/1998) in 1958 ==> Liverpool